(a.) Fleeing from pursuit, danger, restraint, etc., escaping, from service, duty etc.; as, a fugitive solder; a fugitive slave; a fugitive debtor.
(a.) Not fixed; not durable; liable to disappear or fall away; volatile; uncertain; evanescent; liable to fade; -- applied to material and immaterial things; as, fugitive colors; a fugitive idea.
(n.) One who flees from pursuit, danger, restraint, service, duty, etc.; a deserter; as, a fugitive from justice.
(n.) Something hard to be caught or detained.
Example Sentences:
(1) But the British government is facing a catch-22 situation, being equally anxious – as former diplomat Oliver Miles pointed out in the London Review of Books – to avoid setting the opposing precedent of allowing Assange to remain as a fugitive within the embassy in defiance of a European arrest warrant.
(2) "Nizeyimana is a top-level fugitive, among the four most senior of the dozen people we were still seeking," said Hassan Bubacar Jallow, chief prosecutor at the ICTR.
(3) Every day, as part of routine targeted enforcement operations, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Fugitive Operations teams arrest criminal aliens and other individuals who are in violation of our nation’s immigration laws,” Byrd said in a statement.
(4) I felt like a fugitive, a voice in the wilderness of televisual parody.
(5) Petraeus and his men would make unannounced visits in the middle of the night to Ljiljana Karadžić, the fugitive’s wife, with the aim of rattling her with a show of bravado about his imminent capture, in the hope she would rush to warn him, and give away his location.
(6) A withdrawal from the EAW, as a result of the Conservative obsession to limit Britain's partnership and co-operation in the EU, would be welcomed by all transnational criminals who flee British justice and rely on other countries' legal systems to delay the return of any fugitive to British justice.
(7) His younger brother Salah is still on the run, Europe’s most wanted fugitive.
(8) Adani has calculated that the mine will release an additional 3bn tonnes of CO2 in Australia over a 60-year period, due to fugitive emissions.
(9) Sudan failed to act on the 2009 international warrant for its head of state, Omar al-Bashir, on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur, leading the ICC to describe him as "a fugitive president".
(10) The title came from an incident in 1975 when, as a young housewife in Salisbury, the capital of white-run Rhodesia, she made dinner at her home for a white liberal friend and Mugabe, then a fugitive guerrilla leader.
(11) • In the US, senator Robert Menendez, chair of the Senate foreign relations committee, said Snowden was a " fugitive who belongs in a United States courtroom " and said the episode had damaged US-Russian relations.
(12) Last week's US special forces raid to capture a fugitive Libyan al-Qaida leader, apparently the trigger for the move against Zeidan, was a humiliating reminder both of the impotence of the government and of how the country has become a safe haven for terrorists.
(13) 7.27pm BST EU foreign ministers meeting in Luxembourg agreed to add four names to the list of people whose assets in the European Union have been blocked for allegedly embezzling Ukrainian state property under fugitive pro-Moscow president Viktor Yanukovych, the Associated Press reports: The new names, which brought the total to 22, including Yanukovych himself, are to be made public Tuesday.
(14) The fugitive enjoyed a millionaire's lifestyle while on the run.
(15) The routine has become almost familiar: a fugitive mafia boss is cornered by Mexican security forces and captured without a shot fired.
(16) Last month, Guy Verhofstadt, a prominent member of the European parliament, told Reuters that Europe needed "full transparency" because of the US National Security Agency surveillance made public by fugitive former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.
(17) The folksy and charismatic cartel leader of puffy cheeks and large nose, known to wear a baseball cap and a grey-haired goatee, was a fugitive also wanted in the US for conspiracy to import and distribute cocaine.
(18) • Senior Serbian officials have told US diplomats in Belgrade that Russia may know the whereabouts of the fugitive Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic .
(19) "We have already identified and reconstructed the means by which they supported the fugitives.
(20) Jimmy McGovern's saga of the ill-fated residents of The Street was similarly afflicted, despite its pedigree, as was Broadchurch, the unremitting Southcliffe and Prey, the recent Mancunian take on The Fugitive which managed to be both far-fetched and gruellingly mundane.
Retain
Definition:
(v. t.) To continue to hold; to keep in possession; not to lose, part with, or dismiss; to retrain from departure, escape, or the like.
(v. t.) To keep in pay; to employ by a preliminary fee paid; to hire; to engage; as, to retain a counselor.
(v. t.) To restrain; to prevent.
(v. i.) To belong; to pertain.
(v. i.) To keep; to continue; to remain.
Example Sentences:
(1) The femoral component, made of Tivanium with titanium mesh attached to it by a new process called diffusion bonding, retains superalloy fatigue strength characteristics.
(2) But RWE admitted it had often only been able to retain customers with expired contracts by offering them new deals with more favourable conditions.
(3) Their particular electrophoretic mobility was retained.
(4) The cis isomer was retained longer in liver, particularly in mitochondria, but had low retention in that portion of the endoplasmic reticulum isolated as the rough membrane fraction.
(5) Despite this alteration in subcellular distribution, the mutant polypeptide retained the ability to induce fibroblast transformation by several parameters, including the ability to display anchorage-independent growth.
(6) They retained the ability to make this discrimination when the coloured stimuli were placed against a background bright enough to saturate the rods.3.
(7) By adjustment to the swaying movements of the horse, the child feels how to retain straightening alignment, symmetry and balance.
(8) ITV retained its quasi-feudal structure until the 1990s.
(9) This "paradox of redistribution" was certainly observable in Britain, where Welfare retained its status as one of the 20th century's most exalted creations, even while those claiming benefits were treated with ever greater contempt.
(10) Ultraviolet difference spectrophotometry indicates that the inactivated enzyme retains its capacity for binding the nucleotide substrates whereas the spectral perturbation characteristic of 3-phosphoglycerate binding is abolished in the modified enzyme.
(11) In a newspaper interview last month, Shapps said the BBC needed to tackle what he said was a culture of secrecy, waste and unbalanced reporting if it hoped to retain the full £3.6bn raised by the licence fee after the current Royal Charter expires in 2016.
(12) The most serious complications following operative treatment are retained bile duct calculi (2.8%), wound infection and biliary fistulae.
(13) Bivalent F(ab')(2) also retains its insulin-like effects.
(14) In this study, a technique is described by which large obturators can be retained with an acrylic resin head plate.
(15) At the end of the dusting period those animals treated with normally charged dust had significantly more chrysotile retained in their lungs than animals exposed to discharged dust.
(16) The fact that the security service was in possession of and retained the copy tape until the early summer of 1985 and did not bring it to the attention of Mr Stalker is wholly reprehensible,” he wrote.
(17) Formula fed infants retained more nitrogen and gained weight faster.
(18) As an extension of the previous study which indicated that mesoglea is a primitive basement membrane which has retained some characteristics of interstitial extracellular matrix, the present study was undertaken to analyze the role of mesoglea components during head regeneration in Hydra vulgaris.
(19) The resulting cell lines have a stable phenotype and retain the changes which result from transformation even after extended passaging.
(20) Protein synthesis in cell-free extracts from resistant or susceptible bacteria was equally susceptible to inhibition by Cd(2+), but spheroplasts from resistant bacteria retained their resistance.